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It is all about ball park #'s. It is not about the players that played in thier ball parks. It is about the players you put in your ball park and the weight they have against L and R singles and HR's.

I am playing with a team that is not at all a fit for the ball park that I am playing in. After the season I will be posting what not to do to be any kind of a winner.

It also has to do with how much I hate that park that the Oakland A's play in and how if enough teams pick that park you can't pick a left handed power hitter out of your ash to save your rearend.

My team is 9 games out and in second place and I should be nowhere near second place but I am light years away from the post season.

I have much here learned my jeti friend.

The # symbol on a player's card means to ignore whatever results follow that on a card and simply refer to the home ballpark's BPHR rating. Therefore in a HR park you would want lots of # on your hitter's cards and very few on your pitcher's cards. If in a singles park it would be the opposite because those # symbols just turn into flyouts.

Same principle for the BP single ratings which are the > symbols on the player cards.

The thing to note here also is that while BP Hrs # vary from card to card, BP Singles < -- except in rare cases -- appear in 5 units on virtually every hitter and pitcher card. There are exceptions in each set, and those cards -- mostly notably pitchers' cards -- are coveted.

The 2009 set, for example, featured a Robinson Tejada card with 0 chances of BP Single <

Artie

You can also cite the recently posted Jimenez card vs lhh..... No BP singles or hr's

[quote:657036d0e8="melgibsonfan"]A couple things:
1. Can you give me an example of how a players home/road splits in real life have affected their stratomatic stats?
[/quote:657036d0e8]

They don't

pick a park, then we'll look at the ratings and go from there. don't pick one where all the ratings are the same.

I think Yount Fans site has tones of support for this discussion. Yes?